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Caroline O'Donoghue (The Rachel Incident) and Justice for Shelley Duvall

Gays Reading

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The Queer-Codedness of the Straight Woman Gay Man Relationship

I love that you talk about these queer relationships in your book. I think the new women grace did not get the plot it deserves, but one of my favorite quotes from that new season was they're doing something political. Watch out for Rachel's defensive over-reaction to a crush on her English professor. She has this blinking moment where she sees how many pre-order looks down and then says no, there's no way he'll like me. He comes up with some sort of internal ordering system which is kind of funny as hell. You can feel your own preciousness leaking through when you care too much about a subject. We have this real tradition, certainly in the cinema of women

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